IIS 5 directory listings

I wonder if anyone knows a lot about IIS. I have an internal site where I work, and I often need to link to directories full of files, and IIS handily allows directory listing as an option when setting up hosting. The problem I have is that I want to customise the output from this. By default the local path is shown in big text, and it shows edit dates and sizes and lots of other stuff which is totally surplus to my needs. Is there a way to customise the output on this, so I can keep it in line with the design of the site?

If not, are there any handy Javascript or similar files which do the same (effectively parse the directory and output an html page), which will let me customise the output?

I've tried searching but have had no luck so far.

oh yeah p.s. Does anyone know if it's possible to force IE to use the original program to open a file linked to, rather than embedding it in the current window/frame.

[Keith]

Have you tried adding an index.html file to the directory and using that to display the contents of the directory instead? It might work, but i've not tried it before myself.

How do you mean, like a preformatted index with the body empty?

I can't see how I'd specify where to put the generated part of the page.

[Saj]

You mean the fileinfo in the file listing? I'm not sure how you would go about doing that, but I'm sure there a template somewhere in the IIS folder.

[pwnm]

As far as I know, you'd need a script to do it (ASP probably be best since its an IIS server) - It wouldn't be particularly complicated, so there might be a few free ones around - try hotscripts.com or planetsourcecode.com

[azoric]

heres' what to do in your index.asp file

<%
Dim objFSO, objFile, objFolder, iNum
Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder (server.MapPath("/my/directory/"))

iNum = 1
For Each objFile in ObjFolder.Files

if objFile.Name <> "index.asp" Then
response.write( objFile.name )

iNum= iNum + 1
Next
Set objFolder= Nothing
set objFSO = NOthing
%>
%>

[noeldp]

Writing a default.asp page is pretty easy. However, how do you use it to replace the system default, so you don't have to put a copy in every directory and subdirectory for which you allow list access?